I guess by supper you mean the evening meal we call dinner over here. Supper, in England at any rate is a late evening meal eaten around nine pm. This evening we had some delicious takeaway sushi. Great for me as I have ”built in” chopsticks
Fried pork chops, mashed potatoes, gravy, turnip greens, cornbread. (Rainy and cool day calls for comfort food!)
Rotini and meatballs with a fresh nut covered jelly doughnut for desert. My culinary skills have no bounds.
Not everyone eats supper, most families eat dinner - what you call supper in the USA - around 6 pm. The reason for eating supper that late was simply because many people who worked on the land ate what my husband’s aunt called high tea which was a substantial meal with bread, butter, cheese and cold cuts like ham late afternoon before continuing to work until early evening. Don’t confuse that with afternoon tea which is something quite different. In Mediterranean countries like Italy and Greece it’s not at all uncommon to have your evening meal at eight or nine pm.
It reminds me of a local landmark called Campbell’s Ledge but formerly called Dial Rock. Because of its orientation running north to south, it was used as a sundial by farmers to know when it was noon by going from shaded to sunny so it was time for lunch.
Supper and dinner are somewhat interchangeable terms in the USA, Bibbi. We never had that high-falutin "tea time."
I'm making some kind of soup today... either split pea with ham or chicken noodle. It's a rainy, cold day.
Most Aussies call midday meal lunch and the evening meal Tea. @Bibbi Wright Supper is something like a cup milo / coffee / tea late evening after “tea” and before going to bed . My hubby and I have Morning “smoko” each morning at 10 am …..NO we don’t smoke anything it’s a morning cuppa and a cake or biscuit .. half way between breakfast and lunch ..although I don’t eat lunch very often
No smokers here … Hubby or myself have never even had an unlit one in our mouth . yet we both grew up with smoking parents .
When I was working he had a "coffee break" between breakfast and lunch. This is the dictionaries distinction between lunch and dinner. Dinner and supper are both used to refer to the main meal of the day, and especially to that meal as eaten in the evening. Supper is used especially when the meal is an informal one eaten at home, while dinner tends to be the term chosen when the meal is more formal.